Tour De Fleece Update Week Two

It is week two of Tour De Fleece.....
I have been updating  in Spin City UK Ravelry Group

A little update from day seven.....
I finished spinning the white Merino and transferred it from my drop spindle to a handmade bobbin!

White Merino on a handmade bobbin

I handspun some fibre before the Tour De Fleece and transferred them onto a handmade bobbin.....
And a handmade Lazy Kate.....

From left to right: White Merino, Dark Brown/Black Finsheep and Hand Dyed Variegated Merino 

I am planning on spinning this next.....

Day Eight of Tour De Fleece

This is what I am planning on spinning on day eight.....

Day Eight and Nine of Tour De Fleece

Day Ten, Eleven and Day Twelve of Tour De Fleece

Day Thirteen of Tour De Fleece

Day Fourteen of Tour De Fleece

I did not take a photo of my full spindle after spinning the fibre batt.  I am going to transfer the single spun yarn onto a bobbin and I think I am going to 2 ply this.
I did not get much spinning done this week as I would like to have done, but at least I am spinning everyday.

I'm Still Spinning Around!

I am so in LOVE with Louise's Etsy shop SpinCityUK. 

 I couldn't keep away.....
I bought some more drop spindles.....
Have you seen Louise's handmade drop spindles?.....
 Aren't they just so beautiful?.....

I want to show off my new daisy drop spindle.....
Isn't it beautiful?

I just love Daisies.....

My beautiful Daisy drop spindle

And I really love glitter..... 

Here is my beautiful square candy drop spindle.....

It is so pretty.....

Square Drop spindle Candy Sprinkles photo from SpinCityUK

This square drop spindle is perfect for spinning lace yarn.....

Here is my beautiful flower shaped candy sprinkle drop spindle.....

Flower shape Candy Sprinkle Drop Spindle photo from SpinCityUK

This flower shaped spindle is perfect for plying as it is heavier drop spindle.....

My three new drop spindles.....

Gorgeous aren't they?.....

My beautiful drop spindle collection.....

I couldn't just order three beautiful spindles.....
I had to buy some clouds of  fluff too.....

Blue Moon Batt

"Blue Moon"  spinning batt made from Jacobs, faux cashmere, firestar and merino fibre.....
I really am looking forward to spinning this batt.....
 I love love spinning Merino.....

" Sugar Plum Fairy"  roving is made from British Shetland, angelina and tencel, and wonderful soft merino in natural shades of grey and brightly dyed magentas and purple.....

I really am looking forward to spinning Sugar Plum Fairy roving.....

Tour De Fleece Update Week One

Tour De Fleece started on Saturday 5th July 2014 and I decided to start with this beautiful white Merino Roving that I got from SpinCityUK

Day one 25g White Merino Roving 

I am trying to spin this white merino as thin and consistent as I can on my drop spindle.....

Day one of Tour De Fleece

This is what I spun on day one of Tour De Fleece.....
I didn't spin that much, I managed to spin for 1 hour on day one.

Day Two hand spun white merino on my wooden drop spindle

 Still plenty of the white merino roving left to spin!

Day Two of Tour De Fleece

This is what I had planned to spin for day two.....

Day Two This is what I am planning to hand spin for day two

I know there is not alot of merino roving there to spin, I only had an hour to spin on day two.....

 And this is what I have spun so far.....

Two day's worth of spinning for me.

Still a bit of the white merino left to spin.

Day Three of Tour De Fleece

This is what I am planning on spinning on day three.

Day three this is what I am spinning White Merino Roving

 I am still spinning the white Merino roving.....
This is what I have hand spun today.....

Day Four of Tour De Fleece

Not much difference from day 3

I did not do much spinning today.....
I only did 10 mins of spinning......

 Day Five of Tour De Fleece

Still spinning white merino roving.....
Not getting as much time to spin as I wanted to spin.....
Again I only managed 10 mins of spinning today

Day Six of Tour De Fleece

Slowly my spindle is getting full of handspun yarn!

 I was hoping to more spinning done today, but this is what I did for day 6.

Day Seven of Tour De Fleece

Day seven and I still have a bit of white merino roving to spin!

Again I did not get much spinning done today.
I am spinning everyday but I am not spinning for as long as I would like to on the Tour De Fleece.  Hoping next week will be a better and I will be able to get alot more spinning done!

Miette Cardigan

So I have finally finished the Miette cardigan.

Sorry about the pictures, I only have a camera phone and I find it does not show the best of the Rooster Yarn or the knitting pattern.....

Rooster Almerino Aran in Spiced Plum

Miette cardigan in Rooster Almerino Aran yarn

Miette Cardigan in Rooster Almerino Aran Yarn

 I have just to sew on the buttons, just waiting to find the right buttons for this cardigan.....

Miette Cardigan

Miette cardigan

I'm Ready for Tour De Fleece 2014!

I only recently found out about the Tour De Fleece, so this year is my first year that I am joining the Tour De Fleece on Ravelry.  For those of you that do not know about Tour De Fleece, it is simple it is to challenge yourself, spin and have fun!  Here is a link to the guidelines on Ravelry.

Tour De Fleece starts on Saturday 5th July to Sunday 27th July 2014.
 Rest days are on Tuesday 15th July and Monday 21st July .
Challenge day is on Saturday 19th July, spin something challenging on challenge day.
Wear yellow on Sunday 27th July to announce victory.
Join a group on Ravelry if you wish.




I joined the Rookies group for anyone doing the Tour De Fleece for the first time.   I do not have a spinning wheel, so I will be using my drop spindle I bought from Louise's shop on Etsy SpinCityUK.
The fibre that I will be using will be a variety of fibre that was part of the Luxury Drop Spindle Kit  there is 150g of fibre in this kit and I also have a custom luxury drop Spindle Kit that has another 150g of fibre. My challenge on challenge day is to spin as much as I can on that day.

A quick look at  my fibres that I want to spin during Tour De Fleece

White Merino Roving 50g

 

Green Merino 25g

Hand Carded Batt 50g

Hand Carded Batts 100g

   

Merino Roving 50g and Fire Star 20g

Merino Roving and Fire Star

Custom Hand Carded Batt 100g

I will do an update post on how I am getting on.

Are you taking part in the Tour De Fleece?
What are you spinning?
What is your challenge?

Spinning Hand Dyed/Hand Blended Merino Roving

Now that I have finished hand spinning 25g of Finsheep fibre I think the next fibre that I am going to hand spin is this.....

25g Hand Dyed / Hand Blended Merino Roving variegated fibre that changes colour as you spin!  

I am actually going to use my pretty flower spindle while spinning this merino roving.....
I am looking forward to seeing how this variegated fibre changes colour as I spin it.....

25g of Hand Dyed / Hand Blended Merino Roving

The colours are beautiful, the roving has yellow, orange, green, blue and purple colours.....

Handspun merino fibre hand dyed hand blended

I finished spinning the 25g of Merino last night.....
I will transfer it to a spare bobbin until I decided what I want to do with this yarn.....
I am wondering how this yarn will ply and how it will knit up.....
The colours are so soft and dreamy.....

Spinning Finsheep Fibre

I though I would do a post today about what I have been spinning.....

Dark Brown/Black Finsheep Roving

So this is the finsheep roving in a beautiful dark brown/black.....
I love spinning with this finsheep roving.....

And this is what I have hand spun so far.....

Hand Spun Dark Brown/Black Finsheep Roving

Hand Spun Dark Brown/Black Finsheep Roving

I am trying so hard to spin as thin as I can and trying to stay consistent.....

Dark Brown/Black Finsheep Roving Hand Spinning into Yarn

 As you can see I like to pre draft my roving first, before I start spinning.....

Dark Brown/Black Finsheep Roving

 This Finsheep roving is ever so soft.....

Close up of my hand spinning on a drop spindle

 My hand spinning on a drop spindle is not perfect.....

Close up of my hand spinning with a drop spindle

Well that is my hand spinning that I have done so far.....

And here I have handspun 25g Finsheep fibre.....

25g Finsheep Fibre

 My spindle is now full of wonderful finsheep handspun yarn.....

Spindle full of handspun Finsheep fibre 25g

I think I would like to ply this.....

 I have only been spinning since the middle of April this year.....

It has been love at first spin since discovering spinning,  I really did not know how addicting it can be.....